Escalus: as in the Prince of Verona from Romeo & Juliet, the voice of authority who orders peace between the feuding families. Don’t recall him blowing up the Capulet’s and Montague’s but I’m sure he would have if he had some explosives.

Thing is, it came as no surprise to me. The scene in the bar was a dead giveaway as he was twirling a device that seemed to have some sort of wick attached. The shock was seeing how horrifically graphic the explosion was.
Damn you Chet !! I always wait till the next day to come on here for DG’s recap but thanks to you and your Gif, I’ll prolly have nightmares tonite !!
Can I remind you all again that I called it weeks ago that Ava would become Queen Bitch of the prison and gorge on all the ice cream she could ever want !!

So… I guess lost in this was that there was no sure thing Boyd was actually in imminent danger. Sure Wynn was being a hardass, but don’t all the criminals on this show try to intimidate each other into better negotiating positions?

Not that I wasn’t anticipating Boyd to have something badass up his sleeve :D

Seriously though. In their initial meeting, they were openly discussing killing Boyd, then the cops rolled in, they were arrested, they got out, and then they all went BACK to their meeting as if everything was hunky dory?

Don’t get me wrong, I like the dramatics, but Boyd didn’t need to get all Breaking Bad on them for the sake of making a point. I recall he was pretty handy with a rocket launcher which would have provided him safe distance from those who wanted to kill him.

Boyd was sending a message to Wynn and the Madam Whoever. He’s not intimidated, he’s Boyd Goddam Crowder, and he will still do business with them, on his terms. Blowing them up from afar would not have accomplished what he wanted to.